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This is the journal of my endeavours to grow a range of fruit, veg and flowers from seed, grow organically, and my attempts to create a personal paradise with 1/2 acre of maintained gardens and 1/2 acre wild meadows.Northern Ireland's average daily high temperatures are 18 °C (64 °F) in July and 6 °C (43 °F) in January.Soil type: Clay

Thursday, 4 July 2013

VegEdibles on 4th July

Lots of veg being harvested this month. I've had some plants bolting but I think the main reason is I've planted them too close together and they become stressed. Seems I've enough lettuces to last the whole summer! However, I imagine they'll begin to bolt / flower if I don't use them soon. Lunch is generally tuna salad and dinner is chicken salad, with celery, radish, turnip, spring onion and whatever else I can harvest.

The celery grown last year and left over Winter is a good size to harvest. However I've noticed flowers coming so I think my time is limited to get it eaten. I had a look on the internet about freezing celery and it seems do-able so I will try this.

Chive flowers are lovely added to salads.

I keep replanting radish as per the seeds coming up below. Radish looks great in salads or sliced on top of pasta dishes.

Above: Flowers begin to show on my Radish Hilds blauer Herbst und Winter, a German type of radish I'm trying out this year. So I pulled two of them - pictured below with Turnip 'Purple Top Milan'. The turnip are tennis ball size.

I had said goodbye to rhubarb a couple of weeks ago but the plant produced more stalks and I decided another harvest was in order - more crumble and ice cream for me!

Lettuces everywhere ready to eat! A learning point - sow every few weeks rather than all at one time. Above is Lettuce ‘Verpia’ I bought by mail order. They're a lovely elephant sized lettuce leaf!

Happy Independence Day to all Americans! Have a great weekend!

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Hi Kelli, we have been succession sowing lettuce but the sudden onset of sunshine and salad weather has depleted them and it will be a few weeks before the next lot are ready to eat! I have grown radishes for the first time this year as I have a new plot helper and he 'thinks' he would like radishes?!

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Gardening is a great way to enjoy the outdoors, keep fit and be creative. I've been gardening for over 10 years and consider myself a knowledgeable beginner.
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